Baby’s movements

[carlitamurray32]

Hi ladies,

Just looking for a bit of WWYD. I’m just under 32 wks and haven’t felt the baby move much today. He has absolutely no pattern and I have an anterior placenta which is obviously great for monitoring 🙄. Despite him having no pattern I do normally feel him on and off from when I get up to bedtime. Today has been very quiet tho and very, very soft when they have happened.

Problem is I’ve already been in on Weds eve for monitoring - I didn’t feel anything from about 10am till about 10pm (when I went in) apart from insane hiccups which were making my belly move and I know they don’t count. Today there hasn’t even been hiccups. Everything was fine on the monitor though on Weds as it has been previously!!

I’ve just had my lunch and a pot of tea + plus a slice of cake so am having a lay down on my side but he’s been very quiet - thought he’d wake up after all that. What should I do?

I feel like such a nuisance going in again, which is daft I know as no one has made me feel remotely that way - quite the opposite. But don’t want to feel like I’m wasting resources!!

Also when things say 10 movements in an hr/2hrs is it 10 sep movements or 10 collections of movements IKNWIM - sometimes it’s hard to count the little bursts.

Thank you xx

Try a really cold glass of water. However I'd call your unit and go in! I had several reduce movements during my pregnancy but she always started to move when they put me on the monitor. In the end they put me on 2xweekly visits to make sure she was ok. She arrived earlier at 37 weeks after she was very quiet the day before and being monitored.

I always felt bad about calling up but it is important so please please ring! :)

Ring and go - I’ve been 3 times and on the last time the midwife said to me “even if you get home and in an hour you don’t feel right, come back. If you wake up tomorrow morning (it was at like 11pm) then come back....”

At my appointment last week my regular midwife said to me “it is the single most important way we know baby is ok”

It could be baby is just chilling inwards and so the movements are really soft, that’s what happened to me on the last one, it took her ages to locate his heartbeat bc he was so well tucked up!

If you go in you can be home and settled by dinner time and nothing to worry about! Otherwise you’ll probably end up going tonight anyway and be sat in a hospital at midnight like me!

I had a similar issue, 32 weeks, anterior placenta and no movements. went in and the CTG didnt meet criteria on numerous occasions. I was kept in for a week, released with daily ctg follow ups. A week later they decided to induce me, following a Doppler scan not giving the greatest results and the growth scan showing slow growth. I’m now lay in hospital with my 34 weeker on my chest. As the consultant said to me before being induced ‘babies die and the machines are only accurate for the time you are on them’ go and get checked out! You’ll either be reassured or given a course of action to follow

CALL YOUR MIDWIFE AT TYE HOSPITAL!!!!

Please do this.

Now.

Definitely go. I went four times during my pregnancy including twice only two days apart. Every time it was fine, but as I had some risk factors, I went in if I felt concerned. The final time it turned out I was in early labour! You are never a nuisance for getting checked out.

I was induced at 38 weeks with #2 after going in for reduced movements for the second time. We had a true knot in the cord which was also around his neck. Potentially a cord accident waiting to happen. Get checked out.